Displaying printer or plotter usage accounting records
You can display printer or plotter usage accounting records with the pac command.
- To collect printer usage information, you must have an accounting system set up and running. See Setting up an accounting system for guidelines.
- The printer or plotter for which you want accounting records must have
an
acctfile=clause in the printer stanza of the /etc/qconfig file. The file specified in theacctfile=clause must grant read and write permissions to the root user or printq group. - If the -s flag of the pac command is specified, the command
rewrites the summary file name by appending _sum to the path name specified
by the
acctfile=clause in the /etc/qconfig file. This file must exist and grant read and write permissions to the root user or printq group.
To display printer usage information for all users of a particular
printer, type:
/usr/sbin/pac -PPrinter If you do
not specify a printer, the default printer is named by the PRINTER environment
variable. If the PRINTER variable is not defined,
the default is lp0.
To display printer usage information
for particular users of a particular printer, type:
/usr/sbin/pac -PPrinter User1 User2 ...